Love and Pains
Episode 19 Drinks were brought in buckets of ice but I was less interested, I didn’t like the way Fatima kept whispering in Jafar’s ears. It was not like I was jealous or something, but she should atleast say what she wanted to say loud and clear… oya I was jealous small. Just when I was calming down, the one called Mariam decided to talk. Mariam: Please you guys should spread the word to all the Kano students in your school, my dad is gunning for governorship. It was not like I was from a poor home and all o, but these entire politician’s children sef Toun: oh that’s nice although I have few Hausa friends… Fatima: but Jafar is Hausa and from Kano, isn’t he your friend.. There was a deafening silence, I wondered how Toun would have explained that our host, who engineered our being in Abuja, was not our friend.. Jafar: I never told them.. Fatima looked at him and spanked him playfully like he was a naughty boy. He smiled at her too.. Me: he actually told him he was from Kano ...